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leveraged buyout
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leveraged buyout, the takeover of a company, financed by borrowed funds. Often, the target company's assets are used as security for the loans acquired to finance the purchase. The acquiring company or group then repays the loans from the target company's profits or by selling its assets. Many leveraged buyouts have been financed through junk bonds junk bond, a bond that involves greater than usual risk as an investment and pays a relatively high rate of interest, typically issued by a company lacking an established earnings history or having a questionable credit history.
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Sam Zell, the real estate baron who called his heavily leveraged takeover of Tribune Co.
WILL ZELL GET BOUNCED? by Harry Maurer & Cristina Linblad / BusinessWeek
When the deal was first announced it would have been the biggest leveraged takeover in history in US dollar terms at exchange rates of the time.
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The authors point to several factors for this decline, including the decreased willingness of lenders to finance highly leveraged takeovers, an improved and more predictable set of defensive measures that have reduced the strategic advantage of the hostile bid, and increased use of the acquirer s own shares as an acquisition currency, which is difficult to use in a hostile transaction.
Takeovers: A Strategic Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions. (Director ... by Raymond, Douglas, III / Directors & Boards
 
 
 
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